Are Trainers The Right e-Learning Designers?

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from the Masie Centre
"Here are some of the wonderful responses that we received to this recent query in our TRENDS Newsletter to the following question:

* A significant number of full-time classroom trainers are being asked to take on e-Learning development or design functions.

In some cases, this works out wonderfully. The trainer may bring deep subject matter expertise and/or a crisp sense of the learning from the learner's perspective. However, sometimes the match between classroom training competencies and instructional design competencies is not there. There also seem to be a wide range of investment in re-training the trainers (from no investment to full instructional design classes)."